Mario Mikulincer
ADDRESSES
Department of Psychology
41 Hish Street, Apt. 7
Bar-Ilan University
Rehovot, 76266
Ramat Gan 52900
Israel
Israel
Phone: 972-8-9454426
Phone: 972-3-5317782
Fax:
972-3-5350267
(E-mail: mikulm@mail.biu.ac.il)
(Web site: http://www.biu.ac.il/soc/peleg/cv-mikulincer.html)
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Education
1976-1979 Bar-Ilan University, Psychology B.A., 1979
1979-1982 Bar-Ilan University, Experimental Psychology M.A., 1982
Supervisor: Prof. R. Lubow
1982-1985 Bar-Ilan University, Psychology Ph.D., 1985
Supervisor: Prof. R. Lubow
Academic Positions
1981-1986
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Instructor
1984-1986
Haifa University, Department of Psychology, Instructor
1986-1988
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Lecturer
1988-1990
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Senior Lecturer
1990-1992
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Associate Professor
1992-present Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Professor
Administrative Positions
1988-1992
Director of the MA Experimental Psychology Program, Bar-Ilan University
1993
Chairman of the 23th Israel Psychological Association Congress
1993-1995
Director of PhD program, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University
1993-1995
Deputy-Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University
1995-1999
Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University
2001-2004
Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Bar-Ilan University
2002-present Director, Peleg-Bilig Center for the Study of Family Well-Being,
Bar-Ilan University
2004-present Dean, Bar-Ilan Regional Colleges
Research Positions:
1982-1991
Mental Health Department., Israel Defense Forces: Senior Researcher
1986-1989
Sleep deprivation laboratory, Israel Ministry of Defense: Senior Researcher
1993-1996
Casualties Department, Israel Defense Forces: Senior Researcher
1996-present Peleg-Bilig Center for the Study of Family Well-Being, Bar-Ilan University
Professional Societies
American Psychological Association
International Association for Research in Relationships
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow
Honors and Awards
1992 – Listed among the 30 most-productive authors (4th place) in psychology journals indexed
by ISI in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Science between 1986 and 1990. Current
Contents, 41, 155-165.
1992 – Listed among the 100 most-productive authors (22th place) in the field of social
psychology journals (according to the Overall PsycINFO productivity index) for the
decade of the 1980s. In Gordon, R. A., & Vicari, P. J. (1992). Eminence in social
psychology: A comparison of textbook citation, social sciences citation index, and
research productivity rankings. Personality and Social PsychologyBulletin, 18, 26-38.
2003 - Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2004 - Listed among the 30 most-productive authors (9th place) in the Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology from 1965 to 2000. In Quinones-Vidal, E., Lopez-Garcia, J. J.,
Penaranda-Ortega, & Tortosa-Gil, F. (2004). The nature of social and personality
psychology as reflected in JPSP, 1965-2000. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 86, 435-452.
2004 - Awarded with the 2004 Psychology EMET prize for Arts, Science, & Culture
Research Interests
Attachment styles in adulthood; Terror Management theory, Personality processes in
interpersonal relationships; Evolutionary psychology, Human learned helplessness and
depression; Trauma and Post-traumatic processes; Coping with stress; Qualitative research of
emotional states; Mental rumination and self-focused attention
SERVICES TO PSYCHOLOGY
Editorship
2003-present
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Associate Editor
Editorial Boards
2002-present
Journal of Personality
2000-2004
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID
2002-present
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP
2002-present
Personal Relationships
2002-present
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2003-present
Psychological Inquiry
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Journals)
Anxiety, Stress, and, Coping
Applied Psychology
British Journal of Social Psychology
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Cognition and Emotion
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Death Studies
European Journal of Oral Sciences
European Journal of Personality
European Journal of Social Psychology
Gut
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Family Psychology
Journal of Occupational Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: ASC
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Motivation and Emotion
Personal Relationships
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychologia (hebrew)
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Social Cognition
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Grant Foundations)
Binational Israeli-US Science Foundation
Israeli Academy of Sciences
Ford Foundation
Grant Foundation
Israeli Health Ministry
Israeli Education Ministry
Israeli Cancer Foundation.
National Science Foundation
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Mikulincer, M. (1994). Human learned helplessness: A coping perspective. New York:
Plenum Press.
Articles and book chapters
Weisenberg M., Wolf Y., Mittwoch T., Mikulincer M., & Aviram O. (1985). Subject versus
experimenter control in the reaction to pain. Pain, 23, 187-200.
Mikulincer, M. (1986). Attributional processes in the learned helplessness paradigm: The
behavioral effects of globality attributions. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 51, 1248-1256.
Mikulincer, M. (1986). Motivational involvement and learned helplessness: The behavioral
effects of the importance of uncontrollable events. Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology, 4, 402-422.
Mikulincer, M., & Caspy, T. (1986). The conceptualization of helplessness: I. A
phenomenological-structural analysis . Motivation and Emotion, 10, 263-278.
Mikulincer, M., & Caspy, T. (1986). The conceptualization of helplessness: II. Laboratory
correlates of the phenomenological definition of helplessness. Motivation and
Emotion, 10, 279-294.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Hobfoll, S. E. (1986). The effects of social support and
battle intensity on loneliness and breakdown during combat. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 51, 1269-1276.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Combat stress reactions, post traumatic stress
disorder and somatic complaints among Israeli soldiers. Journal of Psychosomatic
Research, 31, 131-137.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Combat stress reactions, post-traumatic stress
disorder and social adjustment--A study of Israeli veterans. The Journal of Nervous
and Mental Disease, 175, 277-285.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Hobfoll, S. E. (1987). Objective versus subjective
measurement of stress and social support: The case of combat-related reactions.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 577-583.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Kotler, M. (1987). A two year follow-up of somatic
complaints among Israeli combat stress reaction casualties. Journal of Psychosomatic
Research, 31, 463-469.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Jacob, B. R. (1987). Exposure to recurrent combat stress:
combat stress reactions among Israeli soldiers in the Lebanon war. Psychological
Medicine, 17, 433-440.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., Freid, B., Wosner, Y. (1987). Family characteristics and
posttraumatic stress disorder -- A follow-up of Israeli combat stress reaction
casualties. Family Processes, 26, 383-394.
Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Post-traumatic
stress disorder among frontline soldiers with combat stress reaction: The 1982 Israeli
experience. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 448-454.
Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Post-traumatic
stress disorder among soldiers with combat stress reaction: The 1982 Israeli
experience. Megamot, 30, 219-229.
Schwarzwald, J., Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Validation of the
impact of event scale for psychological sequelae of combat. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, 55, 251-256.
Weisenberg, M., Solomon, Z., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Assessing
severity of post-traumatic stress disorder: The relationship between dichotomous and
continuous measures. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 432-434.
Keinan, G , Mikulincer, M., & Ribnytzki, A. (1988). Perception of self and parents by
second generation Holocaust survivors. Behavioral Medicine, 14, 6-12.
Mikulincer, M. (1988). Reactance and helplessness following exposure to unsolvable
problems: The effects of attributional style. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 54, 679-686.
Mikulincer, M. (1988). The relationship of probability of success and performance
following unsolvable problems: Reactance and helplessness effects. Motivation and
Emotion, 12, 139-154.
Mikulincer, M. (1988). The relation between stable/unstable attribution and learned
helplessness. British Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 221-230.
Mikulincer, M. (1988). Freedom of choice, control, and learned helplessness. Journal of
Clinical and Social Psychology, 7,203-213.
Mikulincer, M. (1988). A case study of three theories of learned helplessness: The role of
test importance. Motivation and Emotion, 12, 371-384.
Mikulincer, M., & Nizan , B. (1988). Causal attribution, cognitive interference and the
generalization of learned helplessness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
55, 470-478.
Mikulincer, M., & Solomon, Z. (1988). Attributional style and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 97, 308-313.
Mikulincer, M., Solomon, Z., & Benbenishty, R. (1988). Battle events, acute combat stress
reaction and long term psychological sequelae of war. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2,
121-133.
Solomon, Z., Benbenishty, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). A follow up of Israeli casualties of
combat stress reaction ("battle shock") in the 1982 Lebanon War. British Journal of
Clinical Psychology, 27, 125-136.
Solomon, Z., Kotler, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Combat related post-traumatic stress
disorder among second generation Holocaust survivors: Preliminary findings.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 865-868.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Psychological sequelae of war: A two year followup study of Israeli combat stress reaction casualties. The Journal of Nervous and
Mental Disease, 176, 264-269.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M, & Avitzur, E. (1988). Coping, locus of control, social support,
and combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder -- A prospective study. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 279-285.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Bleich, A. (1988). Characteristic expressions of posttraumatic stress disorder among Israeli soldiers in the 1982 Lebanon War. Journal of
Human Stress, 14, 171-178.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M., Flum, H. (1988). Negative life events, coping responses,
and combat-related psychopathology: A prospective study. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 97, 302-307.
Solomon, Z., Schwarzwald, J., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Combat stress
reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder as determinants of perceived self-efficacy
in battle. Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, 6, 356-370.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Benbenishty, R. (1989). Combat stress reaction - Clinical
manifestations and correlates. Military Psychology, 1, 35-47.
Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspi, T., & Kempinski, D. (1988). The topology of
performance curves during 72 hours of sleep loss: A memory and search task.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 737-756.
Lider, O., Wolf, Y., Silfan, P., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Perception of the father as
aggressor or victim among offsprings of Holocaust survivors. Crime and Social
Deviance, 17, 51-70.
Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspi, T., & Sing, H. (1989). The implications of sleep loss
for circadian performance accuracy. Work and Stress, 3, 3-14.
Mikulincer, M. (1989). Learned helplessness and egotism: Effects of internal/external
attribution on performance following unsolvable problems. British Journal of Social
Psychology, 28, 17-29.
Mikulincer, M. (1989). Self serving biases in the perception of freedom: The impact of
previously experienced failures. Journal of Psychology, 123, 25-41.
Mikulincer, M. (1989). Cognitive interference and learned helplessness: The effects of offtask cognitions on performance following unsolvable problems. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 129-135.
Mikulincer, M. (1989). Coping and learned helplessness: Effects of coping strategies on
performance following unsolvable problems. European Journal of Personality, 3,
181-194.
Mikulincer, M. (1989). Causal attribution, coping strategies, and learned helplessness.
Cognitive Therapy and Research,13, 565-582.
Mikulincer, M., Babkoff, H., Caspi, T., & Sing, H. (1989). The effects of 72 hours of sleep
loss on psychological variables. British Journal of Psychology , 80, 145-162.
Mikulincer, M., Glaubman, H., Wasserman, O., Porat, A., & Birger, M. (1989). Control
beliefs and sleep characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder patients.
Psychological Reports, 65, 567-576.
Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Zilcha-Segal, H. (1989). Learned helplessness, reactance,
and cue utilization. Journal of Research in Personality, 23, 235-247.
Mikulincer, M., & Solomon, Z. (1989). Causal attribution, coping strategies, and combatrelated posttraumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Personality, 3, 269-284.
Segal, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1989). The experience of loneliness: A phenomenologicalstructural analysis. Psychologia, 1, 85-94.
Solomon, Z., Avitzur, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1989). Coping resources and social
functioning following combat stress reaction : A longitudinal study. Journal of Social
and Clinical Psychology, 8, 87-96.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Benbenishty, R. (1989). Locus of control and combatrelated post traumatic stress disorder: The intervening role of battle intensity, threat
appraisal, and coping. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 28, 131-144.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M., & Flum, H. (1989). The implications of life events and
social integration in the course of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Social
Psychiatry, 24, 41-48.
Dorshav, N., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Learned helplessness, causal attribution, and
responses to frustration. Journal of General Psychology, 117, 47-58.
Glaubman, H., Mikulincer, M., Wasserman, O., Porat, A., & Birger, M. (1990). Sleep of
chronic posttraumatic patients. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 3, 255-263.
Kedem, P., Mikulincer, M., Nathenson, Y. E., & Bartoov, B. (1990). Psychological aspects
of male infertility. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 73-80.
Mikulincer, M. (1990). The joint influence of prior beliefs and current situational
information on stable/unstable attribution. Journal of Social Psychology, 130, 739754.
Mikulincer, M., Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., & Weiss, H. (1990). The impact of cognitive
interference on performance during prolonged sleep loss. Psychological Research, 52,
80-86.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Tolmacz, R. (1990). Attachment styles and fear of death: A
case of affect regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 273-280.
Mikulincer, M., Gerber, H., & Weisenberg, M. (1990). Judgments of control and
depression: The role of self-esteem threat and self-focused attention. Cognitive
Therapy and Research, 14, 589-608.
Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Paz, D. (1990). The impact of trait anxiety and situational
stress on the categorization of natural objects. Anxiety Research, 2, 85-101.
Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Paz, D. (1990). Anxiety and categorization: 1. The structure
and boundaries of mental categories. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 805814.
Mikulincer, M., Paz, D., & Kedem, P. (1990). Anxiety and categorization: 2. Hierarchical
levels of mental categories. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 815-821.
Mikulincer, M., & Segal, J. (1990). A multidimensional analysis of the experience of
loneliness. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 209-230.
Mittwoch, T., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). The influence of warning signal
timing and cognitive preparation on the aversiveness of electric shock. Pain, 42, 373381.
Solomon, Z., Avitzur, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Coping styles and postwar
psychopathology among Israeli soldiers. Personality and Individual Differences, 5,
451-456.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M, & Habershaim, N. (1990). Life events, coping strategies,
social resources, and somatic complaints among combat stress reaction casualties.
British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 137-148.
Solomon, Z., Waysman, M, & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Family functioning, perceived
societal support and combat-related psychopathology: The moderating role of
loneliness. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9, 456-472.
Weisenberg, M., Wolf, Y., Mittwoch, T., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Learned
resourcefulness and perceived control of pain: A preliminary examination of construct
validity. Journal of Research in Personality, 24, 101-110.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Life events and combat-related posttraumatic stress
disorder: The intervening role of locus of control and social support. Military
Psychology, 2, 241-256.
Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., & Mikulincer, M. (1991). Subjective sleepiness ratings: The effects
of sleep deprivation, circadian rhythmicity and cognitive performance. Sleep, 14, 534539.
Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., Mikulincer, M., & Sing, H. (1991). Monotonic and rhythmic
influences: A challenge for sleep deprivation research. Psychological Bulletin, 109,
411-428.
Bleich, A., Grinshpoon, A., Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., Isaacs, J., & Kotler, M. (1991).
Evaluating parachute-drop stress by measuring blood lipids. Harefuah, 120, 313-317.
Mikulincer, M., Bizman, A., & Aizenberg, R. (1991). An attributional analysis of socialcomparison jealousy. Motivation and Emotion, 13, 235-258.
Mikulincer, M., & Erev, I. (1991). Attachment style and the structure of romantic love.
British Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 273-291.
Mikulincer, M., Glaubman, H., Ben-Artzi, E., & Grossman, S. (1991). The cognitive
specificity of learned helplessness and depression deficits: The role of self-focused
cognitions. Anxiety Research, 3, 273-290.
Mikulincer, M., & Marshand, O. (1991). An excuse perspective of the learned helplessness
paradigm: The self-protective role of causal attribution. Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology, 10, 134-151.
Mikulincer, M., & Nachshon, O. (1991). Attachment styles and patterns of self-disclosure.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 321-332.
Mikulincer, M., & Peer-Golding, I. (1991). Self-congruence and the experience of
happiness. British Journal of Psychology, 30, 21-35.
Mikulincer, M., & Segal, J. (1991). Loneliness and the desire for intimacy: The
intervening role of locus of control. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 801809.
Mikulincer, M., Yinon, A., & Kabili, D. (1991). Epistemic needs and learned helplessness.
European Journal of Personality, 5, 249-258.
Solomon, Z., Benbenishti, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1991). The contribution of wartime, prewar, and post-war factors to self-efficacy: A longitudinal study of combat stress
reactions. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 4, 345-362.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Arad, R. (1991). Monitoring and blunting: Implications for
combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 4, 209-222.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset
posttraumatic stress disorder: I. Differential clinical characteristics. Social Psychiatry
and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 1-7.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset
posttraumatic stress disorder: II. The role of battle experiences and personal resources.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 8-13.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset
posttraumatic stress disorder: The role of life events and social support. Journal of
Community Psychology, 19, 231-236.
Avraham, Y., Mikulincer, M., Nardi, C., & Shoam, S. (1992). The use of individual goalsetting and ongoing evaluation in the treatment of combat-related chronic PTSD.
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 5, 195-204.
Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspy, T., & Sing, H. (1992). Selected problems of analysis
and interpretation of the effects of sleep deprivation on performance rhythms. In
Friedman, D., & Bruder, G. E. (Eds.), Psychophysiology and experimental
psychopathology: A tribute to Samuel Sutton (pp. 93-110). New York: New York
Academy of Science.
Kedem, P., Bartoov, B., Mikulincer, M., & Shkolnik, T. (1992). A possible link between
stress, coping, and male immunological infertility. Psychology and Health, 6, 159173.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1992). Aftermaths of combat stress reactions: A three-year
study. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31, 21-32.
Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1992). Combat stress reaction and posttraumatic stress
disorder: A three-year follow up. Megamot, 34, 414-427.
Solomon, Z., Waysman, M., Belkin, R., Levy, G., Mikulincer, M., & Enoch, D. (1992).
Marital relations and combat stress reaction: The wives' perspective. Journal of
Marriage and the family, 54, 316-326.
Solomon, Z., Waysman, M., Levy, G., Fried, B., Mikulincer, M., Benbenishty, R., Florian,
V., & Bleich, A. (1992). From front line to home front: A study of secondary
traumatization. Family Process, 31, 289-302.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1993). The impact of death-risk experiences and religiosity
on the fear of personal death: The case of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. Omega, 26, 101111.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Weller, A. (1993). Does culture affect perceived family
dynamics? A comparison of Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel. Journal of
Comparative Family Studies, 24, 189-201.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Weller, A. (1993). Attachment styles, coping strategies, and
post-traumatic psychological distress: The impact of the Gulf War in Israel. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 817-826.
Mikulincer, M., Weller, A., & Florian, V. (1993). Sense of closeness to parents and family
rules: A study of Arab and Jewish youth in Israel. International Journal of
Psychology, 28, 323-335.
Waysman, M., Mikulincer, M., Solomon, Z., & Weisenberg, M. (1993). Secondary
traumatization among wives of post-traumatic combat veterans: A family typology.
Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 104-118.
Weisenberg, M., Gerby, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1993). Aerobic exercise and chocolate as a
means of reducing learned helplessness. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 17, 579592.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Green, E. (1994). Fear of personal death and the MMPI
profile of middle-age men: The moderating impact of personal losses. Omega, 28,
151-164.
Orbach, I., Shopen-Kofman, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1994). The impact of subliminal
symbiotic versus identification messages in reducing anxiety. Journal of Research in
Personality, 28, 492-504.
Ben-Artzi, E., Mikulincer, M., & Glaubman, H. (1995). The multifaceted nature of selfconsciousness: Conceptualization, measurement, and consequences. Imagination,
Cognition, and Personality, 15, 17-43.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Bucholtz, I. (1995). Effects of adult attachment style on the
perception and search for social support. The Journal of Psychology, 129, 665-676.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Taubman, O. (1995). Do hardiness contribute to mental
health duringa stressful real-life situation: The roles of appraisal and coping. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 786-796.
Mikulincer, M. (1995). Attachment style and the mental representation of the self. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1203-1215.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1995). Stress, coping, and fear of personal death: The case
of middle-age men facing early job retirement. Death Studies, 19, 413-431.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1995). Appraisal and coping with a real-life stressful
situation: The contribution of attachment styles. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 21, 408-416.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Solomon, Z. (1995). Marital Intimacy, Family Support, and
Secondary Traumatization: A Study of Wives of Veterans with Combat Stress
Reaction. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 8, 203-213.
Mikulincer, M., & Orbach, I. (1995). Attachment styles and repressive defensiveness: The
accessibility and architecture of affective memories. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 68, 917-925.
Weller, A., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1995). Parental division of power in a
multicultural society as reported by adolescents. Journal of Research in Adolescence,
5, 413-429.
Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 1. Conceptualization and
measurement. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 15, 249-271.
Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 2. Interindividual and
intraindividual variance in the appraisal of emotions. Imagination, Cognition, and
Personality, 15, 273-294.
Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 3. The intraindividual
structure of emotions. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 15, 319-334.
Horesh, N., Apter, A., Ishai, J., Danzinger, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Abnormal
psychosocial situations and eating disorders in adolescence. Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 921-927.
Mikulincer, M. (1996). Mental rumination and learned helplessness: Cognitive shifts during
helplessness training and their behavioral consequences. In Sarason, I., Sarason, B., &
Pierce, G. (eds.), Cognitive interference: Theories, methods, and findings (pp. 191210). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1996). Coping and adaptation to trauma and loss. In
Zeidner, M., & Endler, N. (eds.), Handbook of coping (pp. 554-572). New York:
Wiley.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1996). Emotional reactions to loss over the life span: An
attachment perspective. In McFadden, S., & Magai, C. (ed.) Handbook of emotions,
adult development, and aging (pp. 269-285). New York: Academic Press.
Mikulincer, M. & Florian, V. (1996). Do we really know what we need? A commentary on
Pyszczynski, Greenberg, and Solomon's paper. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 33-36.
Orbach, I., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Repressive coping style and the architecture of
emotion-related memories: Is their relationship that simple? British Journal of Social
Psychology, 35, 459-471.
Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Lay theories of emotion: 4. Reactions to negative
and positive emotional episodes. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 16, 89-113.
Birnbaum, G. E., Orr, I., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). When marriage breaks up - Does attachment style contribute to coping and mental health? Journal of Social and
Personal Relationships, 14, 643-654.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of personal death in adulthood: The impact of
early and recent losses. Death Studies, 21, 1-24.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of death and the judgment of social
transgressions: A multidimensional test of terror management theory. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 369-380.
Mikulincer, M. (1997). Adult attachment style and information processing: Individual
differences in curisosity and cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 72, 1217-1230.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). A cognitive-relational approach to emotions -- The
appraisal and coping components of sadness, shame, guilt, jealousy, and disgust.
Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 16, 263-279.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). Are emotional and instrumental supportive
interactions beneficial in times of stress? The impact of attachment style. Anxiety,
Stress, and Coping, 10, 109-127.
Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., King, R., Cohen, D., Stein, D., & Apter, A. (1997). Thresholds
and tolerance of physical pain in suicidal and nonsuicidal patients. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 646-652.
Banai, E., Weller, A., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Interjudge agreement in evaluation of
adult attachment style: The impact of acquaintanceship. British Journal of Social
Psychology, 37, 95-109.
Budner, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Learned helplessness and the occurrence of
depressive-like and paranoid-like responses: The role of attentional focus. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1010-1023.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Symbolic immortality and the management of the
terror of death -- The moderating role of attachment style. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 74, 725-734.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Terror management in childhood: Does death
conceptualization moderate the effects of mortality salience on acceptance of similar
and different others? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1104-1112.
Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and individual differences in functional
versus dysfunctional experiences of anger. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 74, 513-524.
Mikulincer, M. (1998). Attachment working models and the sense of trust: An exploration
of interaction goals and affect regulation. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 74, 1209-1224.
Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and affect regulation: Strategic variations in
self-appraisals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 420-435.
Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and strategies of affect regulation – Working
hypotheses and review of empirical findings. Psychologia, 7, 33-48 (H)
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1998). The relationship between adult attachment styles and
emotional and cognitive reactions to stressful events. In Simpson, J., & Rholes, S.
(eds.,) Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 143-165). New York: Guilford.
Mikulincer, M., Horesh, N., Levy-Shiff, R., Manovich, R., & Shalev, J. (1998). The
contribution of adult attachment style to the adjustment to infertility. British Journal
of Medical Psychology, 71, 265-280.
Mikulincer, M, Orbach, I., & Iavnieli, D. (1998). Adult attachment style and affect
regulation: Strategic variations in subjective self-other similarity. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 436-448.
Orbach, I., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). The body investment scale: Construction and
validation of a body experiences scale. Psychological Assessment, 10, 415-425.
Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Stein, D., & Cohen, O. (1998). Self-representations of suicidal
adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 435-439.
Solomon, Z., Ginzburg, K., Mikulincer, M., Neria, Y., & Ohry, A. (1998). Coping with war
captivity: The role of attachment style. European Journal of Personality, 12, 271-285.
Mikulincer, M. (1999). Folk theories of emotion. In Levinson, D., Ponzetti, J., & Jorgensen,
P. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Emotions. New York: MacMillan Reference.
Mikulincer, M., & Arad, D. (1999). Attachment working models and cognitive openness in
close relationships: A test of chronic and temporary accessibility effects. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 710-725.
Mikulincer, M. & Florian, V. (1999). The association between spouses’ self-reports of
attachment styles and representations of family dynamics. Family Process, 38, 69-83.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1999). The association between parental reports of
attachment style and family dynamics and offspring’s reports of adult attachment
style. Family Process, 38, 243-257.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1999). Maternal-fetal bonding, coping strategies, and mental
health during pregnancy – The contribution of attachment style. Journal of Social and
Clinical Psychology, 18, 255-276.
Mikulincer, M., & Horesh, N. (1999). Adult attachment style and the perception of others –
The role of projective mechanisms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76,
1022-1034.
Mikulincer, M., Horesh, N., Eilati, I., & Kotler, M. (1999). The association between adult
attachment style and mental health in extreme life endangering conditions. Personality
and Individual Differences, 27, 831-842.
Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Blumenson, R., Mester, R., & Stein, D. (1999). The subjective
experience of problem irresolvability and suicidal behavior: Dynamics and
measurement. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 29, 150-164.
Taubman Ben-Ari, O., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1999). The impact of mortality
salience on reckless driving – A test of terror management mechanisms. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 35-45.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2000). The anatomy of a problematic
emotion – The conceptualization and measurement of the experience of pity.
Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 19, 3-26.
Mikulincer, M. (2000). Personal Dependency. In E. F. Borgatta, & R. J. V. Montgomery.
(eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology (second edition, Vol. 3, pp. 2062-2069). New York:
MacMillan Reference.
Mikulincer, M., Birnbaum, G., Woddis, D., & Nachmias, O. (2000). Stress and accessibility
of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual
components of attachment theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78,
509-523.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2000). Exploring individual differences in reactions to
mortality salience – Does attachment style regulate terror management mechanisms?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 260-273.
Mikulincer, M., & Sheffi, E. (2000). Adult attachment style and cognitive reactions to
positive affect: A test of mental categorization and creative problem solving.
Motivation and Emotion, 24, 149-174.
Taubman Ben-Ari, O., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2000). Does a threat appeal moderate
reckless driving? – A terror management theory perspective. Accident Analysis and
Prevention, 32, 1-10.
Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). The association of mothers’ attachment
style and their reactions to the diagnosis of infant’s congenital heart disease. Journal
of Social and Clinical Psychology, 20, 208-232.
Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). Attachment style and mental health: A
one-year follow-up study of mothers of infants with congenital heart disease.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 956-968.
Birnbaum, G., Glaubman, H., & Mikulincer, M. (2001). Women’s experiences of
heterosexual intercourse – Scale construction, factor structure, and relations to
orgasmic disorder. Journal of Sex Research, 38, 191-204..
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). Validation of personal identity as a
terror management mechanism – Evidence that sex-role identity moderates mortality
salience effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 1011-1022.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). An existentialist view on mortality
salience effects: Personal hardiness, death-thought accessibility, and cultural
worldview defenses. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 437-453.
Mikulincer, M. (2001). Adult psychological development: Attachment. In Smelser, N. J., &
Baltes, P. B. (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(pp. 147-151). Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). Attachment style and affect regulation – Implications
for coping with stress and mental health. In Fletcher, G., & Clark, M. (eds.), Blackwell
handbook of social psychology: Interpersonal Processes (pp. 537-557). Oxford, UK:
Blackwell Publishers
Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., Halevy, V., Avihou, N, Avidan, S., & Eshkoli, N. (2001).
Attachment theory and reactions to others’ needs: Evidence that activation of the
sense of attachment security promotes empathic responses. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 81, 1205-1224.
Mikulincer, M., Hirschberger, G., Nachmias, O., & Gillath, O. (2001). The Affective
Component of the Secure Base Schema: Affective Priming with Representations of
Attachment Security. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 305-321.
Mikulincer, M., & Selinger, M. (2001). The interplay between attachment and affiliation
systems in adolescents’ same-sex friendship: The role of attachment style. Journal of
Social and Personal Relationships, 18, 81-106.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2001). Attachment theory and intergroup bias: Evidence
that priming the secure base schema attenuates negative reactions to out-groups.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 97-115.
Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2002). The anxiety buffering function of
close relationships: Evidence that relationship commitment acts as a terror
management mechanism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 527-542.
Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). The anxiety buffering function of
close relationships: Mortality salience effects on the readiness to compromise mate
selection standards. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 609-625.
Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., Goldenberg, J. L., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002).
Gender differences in the willingness to engage in risky behavior: A terror
management perspective. Death Studies, 26, 117-142.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2002). The effects of mortality salience on self-serving
attributions – Evidence for the function of self-esteem as a terror management
mechanism. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 261-272..
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., Birnbaum, G., & Malishkevich, S. (2002). The death-anxiety
buffering function of close relationships: Exploring the effects of separation reminders
on death-thought accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 287299.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2002). Attachment security in
couple relationships – A systemic model and its implications for family dynamics.
Family Process, 41, 405-434.
Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., & Shaver, P. R. (2002). Activation of the attachment system in
adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations
of attachment figures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 881-895.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). Attachment-related psychodynamics. Attachment
and Human Development, 4, 133-161.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). Dialogue on Adult Attachment: Diversity and
Integration. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 243-257.
Taubman -- Ben-Ari, O., Findler, L., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). The effects of mortality
salience on relationship strivings and beliefs – The moderating role of attachment
style. British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 419-441.
Amichai-Hamburger, Y., Mikulincer, M. & Zalts, N. (2003). The effects of learned
helplessness on the processing of a persuasive message. Current Psychology, 22, 3746.
Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2003). Marital satisfaction among mothers of
infants with congenital heart disease: The contribution of illness severity, attachment
style, and the coping process. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 16, 397-415.
Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Strivings for romantic intimacy
following partner complaint or partner criticism: A terror management perspective.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20, 675-687.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2003). The existential function of close
relationships – Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social
Psychology Review, 7, 20-40.
Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., Sapir-Lavid, Y., Yaakobi, E., Arias, K., Tal-Aloni, L., & Bor,
G. (2003). Attachment theory and concern for others’ welfare: Evidence that
activation of the sense of secure base promotes endorsement of self-transcendence
values. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 25, 299-312.
Mikulincer, M, & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The Attachment behavioral system in adulthood:
activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. In M. P. Zanna (ed.),
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 53-152). New York:
Academic Press.
Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Pereg, D. (2003). Attachment Theory and Affect
Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of
Attachment-Related Strategies. Motivation and Emotion, 27, 77-102.
Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Sirota, P. (2003). Mental Pain and Its
Relationship to Suicidality and Life Meaning. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior,
33, 231-241.
Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Sirota, P., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2003). Mental Pain: A
Multidimensional Operationalization and Definition. Suicide and Life Threatening
Behavior, 33, 219-230.
Rom, E., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Attachment theory and group processes: The
association between attachment style and group-related representations, goals,
memories, and functioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 12201235.
Schachner, D. A., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Adult attachment theory,
psychodynamics, and couple relationships: An overview. In S. M. Johnson and V. E.
Whiffen (Eds.), Attachment processes in couple and family therapy (pp. 18-42). New
York: Guilford Press.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: An
Attachment Theory Perspective. In Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von Hippel, W.
(eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes (pp. 85-114). London, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Al-Yagon, M., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Patterns of close relationships and socioemotional andacademic adjustment among school-age children with learning
disability. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 19, 12-19.
Al-Yagon, M., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Socio-emotional and academic adjustment among
children with learning disorders: The mediational role of attachment-based factors.
Journal of Special Education, 38, 111-123.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). A multifaceted perspective on the existential
meanings, manifestations, and consequences of the fear of personal death. In J.
Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental
Existential Psychology (pp. 54-70). New York: Guilford.
Mikulincer, M., Dolev, T., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Attachment-Related Strategies During
Thought-Suppression: Ironic Rebounds and Vulnerable Self-Representations. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 940-956.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2004). The terror of death and the quest
for love – An existential perspective on close relationships. In J. Greenberg, S. L.
Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology
(pp. 287-304). New York: Guilford.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Security-based self-representations in adulthood:
Contents and processes. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment:
Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 159-195). New York: Guilford Press.
Pereg, D., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Attachment style and the regulation of negative affect
– Exploring individual differences in mood congruency effects on memory and
judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 67-80.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). What do self-report attachment measures assess?
In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and
clinical implications (pp. 17-54). New York: Guilford Press.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Attachment in the later years: A commentary.
Attachment and Human Development, 6, 451-464.
Taubman – Ben-Ari, O., Mikulincer, M., & Gillath, O. (2004). The multidimensional
driving style inventory – scale construct and validation. Accident Analysis and
Prevention, 36, 323-332.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Mental representations of attachment security:
Theoretical foundation for a positive social psychology. In M. W. Baldwin (ed.),
Interpersonal Cognition (pp. 233-266). New York: Guilford Press.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment Theory and Research: Resurrection of the
Psychodynamic Approach to Personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 39. 22-45.
Shaver, P. R., Schachner, D. A., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment style, excessive
reassurance seeking, relationship processes, and depression. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1-17.
Banai, E., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P .R. (in press). ‘Selfobject’ needs in Kohut’s selfpsychology: Links with Attachment, Self-Cohesion, Affect Regulation, and
Adjustment. Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Segal, Y. (in press). Rorschach Correlates of
Self-Reported Attachment Dimensions: Dynamic Manifestations of Hyperactivating
and Deactivating Strategies. Journal of Personality Assessment
Cohen, O., Birnbaum, G. E., Meyuchas, R., Levinger, Z., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (in
press). Attachment orientations and spouse support in adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
Psychology, Health, & Medicine.
Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Fear and Compassion: A Terror
Management Analysis of Emotional Reactions to Physical Disability. Rehabilitation
Psychology.
Gillath, O., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). An attachment-theoretical approach
to compassion and altruism. In P. Gilbert (ed.), Compassion: Its nature and use in
psychotherapy. London: Brunner-Routledge.
Gillath, O., Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., Nitzberg, R. E., Erez, A., & van Ijzendoorn, M.
H. (in press). Attachment, caregiving, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an
attachment-theoretical framework. Personal Relationships.
Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (in press). The multidimensionality of the fear of personal
death. In Tomer, A., Eliason, G., & Wong, P. (Eds.), Existential and Spiritual issues in
Death Attitudes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). The behavioral system construct – A useful tool
for building an integrative model of the social mind. In Van Lange, P.A.M. (Ed),
Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Attachment theory and emotions in close
relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to
relational events. Personal Relationships.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Attachment security, compassion, and altruism.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Contributions of attachment theory and research
to motivation science. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation
Science. New York: Guilford.
Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Horesh, N. (in press). Attachment bases of emotion
regulation and posttraumatic adjustment. In D. K. Snyder, J. A. Simpson, & J. N.
Hughes (eds.), Emotion regulation in families: Pathways to dysfunction and health.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Schachner, D. A., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Patterns of nonverbal
behavior and sensitivity in the context of attachment relationships. Journal of
Nonverbal Behavior.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Attachment theory, individual psychodynamics,
and relationship functioning. In D. Perlman & A. Vangelisti (eds.), Handbook of
Personal Relationships. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Attachment Theory and Research: Core
Concepts, Basic Principles, Conceptual Bridges. In A. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins
(Eds.), Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles (Second Edition). New
York: Guilford.
Solomon, Z., Schklar, R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Front line treatment of combat stress
reaction: A 20-year longitudinal study. The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Taubman – Ben-Ari, O., Mikulincer, M., & Gillath, O. (in press). From parents to children –
Similarity in parents and offsprings driving styles. Transportation Research, Part F: Traffic
Psychology and Behavior.
Taubman – Ben-Ari, O., Mikulincer, M., & Iram, A. (in press). A multifactorial framework
for understanding reckless driving – Appraisal indicators and perceived environmental
demands. Transportation Research, Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behavior.
Colloquia and Conference Presentations
Learned helplessness among children of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented in the Israel
Psychological Association Congress, Haifa, Israel, October, 1985.
Sampling perceptual and cognitive performance during 72 hours of sleep deprivation.
Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Jerusalem,
Israel, July 1986.
The effects of social support and battle intensity on loneliness and breakdown during
combat. Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied Psychology,
Jerusalem, Israel, July 1986.
Exposure to recurrent combat stress and combat stress reactions among soldiers in the
Lebanon War. Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied
Psychology, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1986.
Sleep loss, sustained operations and circadian rhytms: The differential effects of memory
loss. Paper presented in the 5th convention of Medicine in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel,
July, 1986.
The meaning of the dependent variables used to measure performance in a sleep deprivation
paradigm. Paper presented in the American Psychological Association Congress,
Washington DC, USA, August 1986.
A three-dimensional classificatory model of cognitive processes. Paper presented in the
Second World Conference on Imagery, Toronto, Canada, June 1987.
The effects of sleep loss on visual shape discrimination. Paper presented in the 9th
European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988.
The effects of 72 hours of sleep loss on a psychomotor task. Paper presented in the 9th
European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988.
Sleep loss, circadian rhytms and task difficulty: Logical reasoning. Paper presented in the
9th European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988.
Variations in diurnal fluctuations under progressive sleep deprivation. Paper presented in
the 5th Congress of Industrial Engineering and Management, Beer-Sheva, Israel, July
1988.
The effects of 72 hours of sleep loss on psychological variables. Paper presented in the 24th
International Congress of Psychology, Sydney, Australia, August, 1988.
Coping strategies and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Paper presented at the
4th International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War
and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
Sleep deprivation as a modifier of performance circadian rhythm. Paper presented at the 4th
International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and
Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
Assessment of the treatment contracts in the Koach project. Paper presented at the 4th
International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and
Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
Cognitive functioning during 72 hours of sleep deprivation. Paper presented at the 4th
International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and
Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
Causal attribution for positive and negative events and combat-related posttraumatic stress
disorder. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Psychological Stress
and Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
The effects of pre-war factors, combat experiences, and combat stress reaction on combatrelated psychopathology. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on
Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
June 1989.
Social support and combat-related psychopathology: The mediating role of loneliness.
Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Psychological Stress and
Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989.
The conceptualization and measurement of lay theories of emotions. Invited address for the
Israel-European Conference in Social Psychology, Mizpe Ramon, Israel, January
1991.
Perceived division of parental power: Comparison of Israeli Arab and Jewish adolescents.
Paper presented at the International Journal of Psychology, Brussels, Begium, July
1992.
Cultural influences on perceived family dynamics: Comparing Israeli Arab and Jewish
adolescents. Paper presented at the International Journal of Psychology, Brussels,
Begium, July 1992
Fear of death and MMPI profile among middle-aged men. Paper presented in the Israel
Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993.
The effects of mortality salience on judgments of social deviance. Paper presented in the
Israel Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993.
Emotional and coping responses to learned helplessness. Paper presented in the Israel
Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993.
Inter-judge agreement in ratings of adult attachment style: The impact of acquaintanceship.
The 7th International Conference on Personal Relationships. Kroningen, The
Netherlands, June 1994.
A multidimensional analysis of intimacy motivation. Paper presented in the Israel
Psychological association Congress, Beer-Sheva, Israel, October 1995.
Cognitive and emotional responses to loss: An attachment perspective. Paper presented in
the Annual International Conference in Social Stress. Paris, France, May 1996.
The psychodynamics of attachment styles. Invited keynote address for the American
Psychological Association Congress, Chicago, USA, August 1997.
Adult attachment style and affect regulation. Invited Address for the Israel Psychological
Association Congress, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 1997.
Terror Management mechanisms and reckless driving. Paper presented in the American
Psychological Association Congress, San Francisco, USA, August 1998.
A terror management perspective of love and commitment. Paper presented at the Annual PelegBilig Center International Conference, Ramat-Gan, Israel, April 2000.
Threat and the accessibility of attachment figures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August 2000.
New trends in Attachment Theory and Research. Symposium in the Israel Psychological
Association Congress, Haifa, Israel, October 2000.
Attachment security and intergroup bias. Paper presented in the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology conference, San Antonio, February 2001.
Attachment Security as a Personality Resource. Invited Keynote address, Annual
Conference of the Developmental Psychology Division, Israeli Psychological
Association, Death Sea, February 2001.
Attachment dynamics and couple relationships. Paper presented at the Annual Peleg-Bilig
Center International Conference, Ramat-Gan, Israel, May 2001.
The terror management function of close relationships. Paper presented in the Conference
for Experimental Existential Psychology, Amsterdam, August 2001.
Attachment security: Positive state that infuses experience and buffers threats. Paper
presented in the American Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco,
August 2001.
Threat and the accessibility of attachment figures. Poster presented in the American
Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, August 2001.
Affect regulation and coping with life crises – What we can learn from attachment theory?
Invited lecture. Israeli Psycho-Oncological Association Conference. Tel Aviv,
October 2001.
Attachment theory, compassion, and altruism. Presentation to a Principal Investigators’
meeting at the Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, December 2001.
Attachment theory and positive psychology. Paper presented in the Positive Psychology
Pre-conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Savannah,
Georgia, February 2002.
An attachment perspective on defensive processes. Paper presented in the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2002.
The dynamic interplay of global, relationship-specific, and contextual representations of
attachment security. Paper presented in the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2002.
The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: An Attachment Theory Perspective. Paper
presented in the 5th Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology, Sydney, Australia,
March 2002.
Attachment Theory and Group Interactions. Invited lecture. Annual Israeli Group Therapy
Association Conference. March 2002.
Attachment Theory and Inter-group violence in Israel. Invited lecture. Annual Israeli
Criminological Association Conference. May 2002.
Attachment and Love Relationships- Psychodiagnostic Issues. Invited lecture. Annual
Israeli Psychodiagnostic Association Conference. May 2002.
The development of attachment-related strategies. Invited lecture. Annual Symposium of
Gonda Brain research Center, Bar-Ilan University, May 2002.
Invited participant in a workshop on “Adult Attachment Theory and Research: Setting the
Agenda,” State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 2002.
Attachment style, value orientation, and maritalsatisfaction. Paper presented at the Annual
Peleg-Bilig Center International Conference, Ramat-Gan, Israel, June 2002.
Implications of attachment theory for educational and counseling psychology. Invited
Adress, Educational Psychology Services, Raanana, January 2003.
The attachment system: A model and new findings. Paper presented in the Personal
Relationships Pre-conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2003.
Sexuality and romantic relationship: The moderating role of attachment styles. Poster
presented at the 4th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, February 2003.
Attachment theory and compassionate love. Invited address at a meeting of grantees of the
Fetzer Institute, Lake Bluff, IL, March 2003.
The multidimensionality of the fear of death. Keynote address at the Conference on The
Scientific Contribution of Victor Florian (1945-2003), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat
Gan, Israel, March 2003.
Attachment style measures: Construct validity. Poster and comments presented at the
biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL,
April 2003.
Attachment theory, compassion, and altruism. Invited plenary address at the Conference on
Compassionate Love, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, IL, May 2003.
Attachment Orientations and individual variations in gratitude and forgiveness within
couple relationships. Paper presented in the Annual Conference of the Peleg-Bilig
Center for the Study of Family Well-being, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, June
2003.
Contextual activation of security-based self-representations. Paper presented in the Annual
Conference of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, MA, October,
2003.
Attachment security, compassion, and moral virtues. Paper presented as part of a symposium at a
conference on Scientific Studies of Forgiveness, Atlanta, GA, October 2003.
An attachment perspective on positive social psychology. Paper presented at the
Conference on Attachment theory, Psychoanalysis, and Humanistic Psychology,
Ramat-Gan, Israel, December 2003.
Implications of Attachment theory and research for Educational Psychologists. Invited
lecture at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, January 2004.
Attachment theory and research: Resurrection of the psychodynamic approach to
personality. Invited keynote address, Association for Research in Personality
Preconference associated with the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, Austin, TX., January 2004.
Attachment, sexuality, and caregiving (Chair) Symposium presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January 2004.
Attachment, compassion, and altruism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January 2004.
Automatic activation of attachment-related goals: The case of self-disclosure and support
seeking. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January 2004.
Attachment, compassion, and altruism: Implications for measuring compassion. Paper
presented at the Conference on “Measuring compassion,” Institute of Noetic Sciences,
Petaluma, CA, February 2004.
The implications of attachment theory for occupational and career counseling. Invited
Keynote address, Annual Conference of the Organizational Psychology Division,
Israeli Psychological Association, Death Sea, Israel, February 2004.
The existential function of close relationships. Invited keynote address, Annual Conference
of the Israeli Psycho-Oncological Society, Ramat Gan, Israel, February 2004.
Attachment-bases of emotion regulation and traumatic processes. Invited lecture for the
Conference on Emotion Regulation Within Families. College Station, TX, February
2004.
Attachment, separation and loss: An integrative model of psychodynamic processes. Invited
Keynote address, the International Conference on Grief and Bereavement, Eilat,
Israel, March 2004.
Attachment, compassion, and altruism. Invited address at the Compassionate Love
Research Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2004.
An attachment perspective on the development of social competence. Paper presented at the
conference on Development of Social Competence. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel, June 2004.
Attachment dynamics, mental representations, and memory – New directions (Chair).
Symposium presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention,
Hawaii, July 2004.
Existential perspective on close relationships. Paper presented at the American
Psychological Association Annual Convention, Hawaii, July 2004.
Attachment-related strategies during thought suppression: Rebounds and self-presentations.
Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention,
Hawaii, July 2004.
Attachment, Sex, and Couple Relationships: Individual Psychodynamics and Interpersonal
Processes (Chair). Symposium presented at the International Association for Relationship
Research Biannual Conference, Madison, WI, July 2004.
The Psychodynamic Interplay of the Attachment and Sexual Behavioral Systems in Couple
Relationships: A Theoretical Integration. Paper presented at the International
Association for Relationship Research Biannual Conference, Madison, WI, July 2004.
An Attachment Perspective on Compassionate Love: Evidence that Activation of the Sense
of Attachment Security Promotes Compassion and Altruistic Helping. Paper presented
at the International Association for Relationship Research Biannual Conference,
Madison, WI, July 2004.
An Attachment-Theoretical Analysis of Emotional Reactions to Relational Events. Paper
presented at the International Association for Relationship Research Biannual
Conference, Madison, WI, July 2004.
Invited participant in an interest group on compassionate love, International Association for
Relationship Research Biannual Conference, Madison, WI, July 2004.
Attachment style and neural correlates of thought suppression. Poster presented at the Biological
Basis of Personality and Individual Differences Conference at SUNY Stony Brook, NY,
August 2004.
Chair of the Dynamics of Romantic Love conference, Davis, CA, September 2004.
A Behavioral-System Perspective on Romantic Love – A Historical Overview of
Research on Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex. Paper presented at the Dynamics of
Romantic Love conference, Davis, CA, September 2004.
Attachment Theory as a Potential Framework for Positive Psychology. Invited keynote
lecture at the International Summit of Positive Psychology, Washington, DC,
September 2004.
An attachment perspective on gratitude in couple relationships. Poster presented at the
International Summit of Positive Psychology, Washington, DC, September 2004.
Bolstering security to increase tolerance, compassion, and altruism. Invited lecture at the
Mind and Life Institute Conference on Neuroplasticity, Dharamsala, India, October
2004.
Correlations of attachment style dimensions with neural activations in romantic love. Paper
presented at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Meeting, Fort Worth, TX,
October 2004.
Attachment and the Regulation of Negative Emotions: An fMRI Exploration. Paper
presented at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Meeting, Fort Worth, TX,
October 2004.
Attachment Style and Neural Correlates of Thought Suppression. Poster presented at the
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, October 2004.
Neural correlates of attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance in romantic love: An
fMRI study. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA,
October 2004.